Two weeks after announcing that Nicole Kidman would not be part of the stellar Woody Allen film lineup, the director has finally found his (call) girl. Complete unknown Lucy Punch gets to play alongside folks we already know (Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto) in the Mediapro production set to commence lensing this summer in the U.K.
No exactly ego-crusher news, Kidman is unable to be on two sets at the same time – she is starring in one of my most anticipated films to see of 2010 in John Cameron-Mitchell‘s Rabbit Hole.
Punch will play a high-priced call girl similar to Ashley Dupre, who was at the center of the scandal that brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. The actress had a noteworthy supporting role in István Szabó‘s Being Julia, where she played an actress who gets what she wants in the acting world by sleeping her way to the top only to be stopped in her tracks by Annette Bening’s character who pulls the rug at the last minute.